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Yesterday, August 12, 2009, 2:30:00 PM
Chronic pancreatitis is long-term progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas that leads to permanent deterioration of the structure and function of the pancreas. It is estimated that in Western Europe and North American chronic pancreatitis is diagnosed in 3 to 9 people in every 100,000 each year. The most common cause is long-term alcohol abuse - it is thought to account for approximately 70% of all cases.

Yesterday, August 12, 2009, 2:30:00 PM
US researchers found that patients who regularly took aspirin after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer had a reduced risk of dying from the disease, and the benefit was greater for patients with a type of colon cancer where the tumors overexpress the COX-2 enzyme, which happens in around two thirds of cases. However, more work needs to be done to confirm the result before applying it to patient care, said the researchers.

Yesterday, August 12, 2009, 1:30:00 PM
Patients with stage III or IV melanoma taking ipilimumab and the oral steroid budesonide to reduce side effects did not have less diarrhea, a known side effect of ipilimumab, according to results of a phase II trial published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. These findings would "discourage the prophylactic use of budesonide to reduce the gastrointestinal side effects of ipilimumab," said researcher Jeffrey Weber, M.D.